James Shrosbree

Associate Professor of Art
Chair of the Department of Art and Design
B.F.A., Boise State University, 1971
M.F.A., University of Montana, 1973

James Shrosbree has exhibited in galleries and museums throughout the United States. He has been a visiting artist and lectured at numerous colleges and universities. His work has been published and reviewed in American Ceramics, Ceramics, Art and Perception and New Art Examiner magazines. More

Matthew Beaufort

Assistant Professor of Art
Associate Chair of the Department of Art and Design
B.A., Yale University, magna cum laude, 1973
M.A., M.A., Maharishi International University, 1978, 1990

Matthew Beaufort did two years of graduate work in the History of Consciousness Ph.D. program at UC-Santa Cruz, specializing in art history. For more than two decades, he has explored relationships between art and consciousness. More

Geoffrey Baker

Professor of Art
N.D.D., A.T.D., Cardiff College of Art (Wales), 1951, 1952

Geoffrey Baker teaches painting and appreciation for the arts. Educated in Edinburgh, Wales and Paris, he has exhibited and lectured widely. Before coming to Maharishi University of Management, he taught painting in London, England. His interest in artistic expression has stimulated him to extensive travels; he especially enjoyed absorbing the cultures of Scandinavia, Africa, Mexico and the Mediterranean countries and islands. More

Gurdon Leete

Assistant Professor of Art
B.F.A., M.F.A., San Francisco Art Institute, 1972, 1977

Professor Leete has worked as a freelance artist in both Web design and 3-D animation. He is also an award-winning graphics software engineer, and is a co-author of the Multitile plug-in for generating complex symmetric imagery in the free GNU image manipulation program, the GIMP.

Prof. Leete is the co-author of six books on the popular Web animation software package Adobe Flash, and he has published 19 essays about the frontiers of computing. Professor Leete has also been a pioneer in using GNU/Linux applications in undergraduate art and design classes, and he edits a blog on free software for art, music and personal creativity. More

Dale Divoky

Assistant Professor of Art
B.F.A., Alfred University, 1973

Prof. Divoky received his B.F.A. in sculpture at Alfred University. Subsequently he studied at the Cooper School of Art and privately with the renowned sculptor John Clague. He has had public commissions in the New York State Capitol building, the International Mario Lanza Society Museum in Philadelphia and in the Meredith Building in Des Moines, Iowa. He has created several large architectural ornaments that adorn buildings throughout the world, based on Maharishi Sthapatya-Veda^SM design. He also has experience in the ceramics field, from industrial to architectural ornamentation. More

Mikaila Maidment

Assistant Professor of Art
B.F.A., M.F.A., Maharishi University of Management, 2002, 2005

Gillian Brown

Adjunct Assistant Professor of Art
B.A., Brown University, 1973
M.A.E., Rhode Island School of Design, 1977
M.F.A., University of California at Los Angeles, 1980

Gillian Brown received her M.F.A. in photography from the University of California. She was a Bunting Fellow in Visual Arts at Radcliffe College, Harvard University. Other awards include State Arts Council Grants from Iowa and Maryland, and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship ($20,000). Her work has been featured at the Addison Gallery of American Art in Andover, Maryland; the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.; and the Santa Fe Museum of Art. More

Michael Peter Cain

Artist in Residence
B.A., Harvard College, cum laude, 1964
B.F.A., M.F.A., Yale University School of Arts, 1965, 1967

Michael Peter Cain received a nine-month Fulbright Senior Research Fellowship to India and Nepal to study The Living Traditions of Hindu Sculpture in India and Nepal, an Arts Midwest/National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Sculpture in 1990, and a Visiting Artist Fellowship from the University of Minneapolis in 1989. He was a member of the groundbreaking environmental art group Pulsa. In 1995, he received a commission to create a large sculpture of the Nine Planets for an airport. This 27' x 27' x 18' kinetic sculpture was selected by Art in America as one of the top public art works of 1997. More

Juliette Daley

Assistant Professor of Art and Exercise and Sport Science
B.A., Southern Illinois University, 1972
M.A., M.F.A., Maharishi University of Management, 1995, 1996

Juliette Daley has choreographed for dance and gymnastics since 1972. She became a two-time All-American and graduated with the Nissen Award, given to the outstanding graduating gymnast in the U.S. Concurrently, she was a member of Canada’s national gymnastic team.

In 1994 she developed her own dance troupe, DANZA.DA Improvisational Dance/Theater. This highly original group combined the flexibility and athletic energy of gymnastics, the expertise of mime, ballet, and jazz, and incorporated original improvisational techniques designed to bridge the gap between theater and dance. DANZA.DA performed at the 1999 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, the largest arts festival in the world. More

Patricia Innis

Adjunct Instructor of Fine Arts
Artist-in-Residence
B.F.A., Bowling Green State University, 1971 • M.F.A., Maharishi University of Management, 1990

Patricia Innis is a painter and environmental artist. All of her work deals with the relationship of the individual and the cosmos and explores the interconnectedness of different aspects of nature and the universe as a whole. Ms. Innis has created art for public places including designing an 81" x 191" etched glass mural. Her environmental work includes a yearlong series of work on trees at Michigan Legacy Art Park, Thompsonville, Mich., mound building in Iowa and mowing designs that were meant to be seen from the air into 10 acres of grassland in Illinois. More